“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.” WantedFacesBlackActingCareersGoes OnManagementUniversityBoxesBrownPhdsBlack Face Author:Archie Panjabi
“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.” KnowsMenMadeWantedNextFunHoursCareersPracticeCollegeGoes OnPianoGrandmotherSmarterMy GrandmotherScholarship Author:Jamie Foxx
“When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?” LeftCareersGoes On Author:Hermann Maier
“My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.” PeopleWayIdeasCareersAdventureGoes OnCuriosityAdmireMagazinesMy WayWeasels Author:John Hodgman
“I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.” KnowsTryingFirstsRealizingCareersSawsGoes OnFirst TimePursueThis LifeLive Your LifeKnow YourselfLife Goes On Author:Nicholas D'Agosto
“As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.” PeopleAbleCareersPathFocusGoes OnComfortableStartingMake SenseCareer PathTime Goes On Author:George Clooney
“When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.” IfsYoungActorsCareersTelevisionGoes On80sYoung Actors Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders” CareersGoneSeaGoes OnRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingGeeseFishermanTroutHang UpsWild Geese Author:John D. Voelker
“There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.” PeopleNumbersCareersSuccessfulGoes OnJerseyNew JerseySuccessful Career Author:Kerry Bishe
“For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.” MenLongDifferentYoungCoursesCareersGoes OnLoversAffairYoung ManDifferent ThingsLove AffairOlder WomenApprenticeship Author:Vita Sackville-West
“I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasCareersCrazyGoes OnAssumingHearingVideoLittle ThingsJudgedKnow MeHere And ThereBeing CrazyCareers And Life Author:Nicki Minaj
“Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.” AbleFeltRaceResponsibilityCareersTeamFieldsGoes OnRelax Author:Warren Moon
“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.” LooksMayMeanLongRunningSuccessFightingChanceCareersFailingRiskGoes OnHonorReputationRuinsMoving OnEncountersEncouragingFavourRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureChances AreRecipe For SuccessWords Of EncouragementCarrying OnGiving Up Is Not An OptionGreat Risk Book:Can You Forgive Her? Source: Can You Forgive Her?